MIT -- now There's a Fun School
They left Dunne's An Experiment With Time out of their reading list -- I think it's an intriguing little book and I worked it into one of my papers this semester.
At first I was insulted to hear this term referring to the Ph.D. degree. Then I decided to reframe and own the phrase as reflecting my life at 52 years -- full of experiences, rich in relationships, and now achieving a dream. Ah, yes. Sometimes my own depth startles me. But at the end of my first semester, the true meaning is unromantically clear: "Piled High and Deep" refers to the astronomical stack of books and articles I will have to plow through in order to finish. Oy!
2 Comments:
It's an interesting way to communicate and express ourselves; I'm sure some communications and psych professors have a lot to say about blogging. A journal or diary that everyone in the world can read is a strange concept. Most people, when they write, have to focus on a particular audience, but the audience here is potentially anyone and everyone. And it also has the ephemeral quality of email; can be here today and gone tomorrow. Strange!
I don't know if there's any bletiquette about these things. I vote for making it up as you go along and doing whatever you want.
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